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01 Meditation Panel Preface.indd - United Nations Day of Vesak 2013

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Conference<br />

Tsongkhapa’s work and those <strong>of</strong> his Geluk followers and what they actually do in terms <strong>of</strong> meditation<br />

practice in the real world are interesting. The higher meditation practices and tantric yogas utilized<br />

extensively in the tradition certainly draw from the theoretical grounding found in expositions like<br />

those I have attempted to explain here, but practically utilize ideas and techniques that stretch far<br />

beyond the common bounds <strong>of</strong> amatha and vipassan as found in sutra expositions. For Tsongkhapa<br />

the correct sutra view, the view <strong>of</strong> the emptiness <strong>of</strong> an inherent nature in all phenomena (for him<br />

expressed in his Prsagika-Madhyamaka presentation) and the view and practice <strong>of</strong> tantra are<br />

utterly compatible and point to the same fundamental nature and realizations. Perhaps it is best left<br />

for another day to discuss the precise relationship between stra theories and tantric practices <strong>of</strong><br />

the Geluk tradition.<br />

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